Porsche competitions Rovera moved into sportscar racing ahead of 2016 with Ebimotors, whom he would drive for in the
Porsche Carrera Cup Italia. His debut campaign demonstrated promise, as he won two races and took 12 podiums overall to finish third. In 2017, Rovera remained in the PCCI but switched to Tsunami RT. This time, he won four races, enough to clinch him the championship title by the end of the year. In addition, the Italian won a race of the Porsche Carrera Cup France and finished on the podium at the Porsche Carrera Cup support race of that year's
24 Hours of Le Mans. Rovera followed this up by contesting a double campaign in the PCCI and PCCF during the 2018 season. He won six races in the former, earning him second place overall, and three in the latter on his way to third in the standings behind
Ayhancan Güven and
Julien Andlauer. That year, Rovera also made his debut in the
Porsche Supercup, driving at the
Red Bull Ring.
GT3 debut Going into 2019, Rovera stepped up to the
GT3 category, driving in the Endurance and Sprint iterations of the
Italian GT Championship for Antonelli Motorsport. Together with
Riccardo Agostini, Rovera won the Sprint series, having taken podiums in six out of eight races. For the 2020 season, Rovera switched to
AF Corse, driving a
Ferrari 488 GT3 in the IGT
Endurance championship alongside
Antonio Fuoco and Giorgio Roda. After winning at
Imola, the trio clinched the Endurance title with another victory at the season finale in
Monza. Rovera and Roda also contested the Sprint series, where they finished fourth with one race win. As well as this, the Italian made his first appearance in the
European Le Mans Series and its
LMGTE class, racing for AF Corse at the final round.
Endurance successes 2021 2021 saw Rovera remain with AF Corse, who fielded him as their designated silver-ranked driver in the LMGTE Am class of the
FIA World Endurance Championship, where he partnered
Nicklas Nielsen and gentleman driver
François Perrodo. The trio experienced a dominant campaign, which started out with a win at
Spa-Francorchamps, where Rovera impressed on debut during the middle stint. Another win came at
Monza, where Rovera and his teammates rebounded from a demotion to the back of the grid after qualifying. However, the team's highlight performance came at the
24 Hours of Le Mans, as AF Corse won the race in LMGTE Am in what was Rovera's Le Mans debut. Another victory at the season finale in
Bahrain earned Rovera, Nielsen, and Perrodo the LMGTE Am title, which they won with a gap of 59.5 points. During 2021, Rovera also drove in the
ELMS, where he, Perrodo, and
Emmanuel Collard won two races on their way to third in the standings. As a result of his performances, Rovera was signed by
Ferrari as an official factory GT driver.
2022 In 2022, Rovera, who had now been upgraded to gold status by the
FIA, made his first foray into prototype racing with a drive in the
LMP2 class of the
WEC and
ELMS. Competing once again for AF Corse, he, along with Nielsen and Rovera, would contest each series's Pro-Am class due to Perrodo's classification as an FIA bronze. In the WEC, the trio once again triumphed, winning four races in their subclass to take the LMP2 Pro-Am title. Meanwhile, the trio scored one subclass win in the ELMS thanks to a charging drive by Rovera at
Barcelona, coming up short on the title to the Racing Team Turkey trio of
Jack Aitken,
Charlie Eastwood, and
Salih Yoluç. Rovera also drove in selected GT races during the year, finishing second at both the
GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup finale in Barcelona and the
IGTC finale at
Abu Dhabi, as well as scoring the fastest lap and thereby setting the GT3 record time during the
24 Hours of Spa.
2023 at the
2023 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. As a newly minted platinum driver per the FIA's standard, Rovera focused on GT racing in 2023, driving alongside fellow factory driver
Lilou Wadoux and bronze-ranked
Luis Pérez Companc in the
WEC's final LMGTE Am season, whilst partnering Nicklas Nielsen and
Robert Shwartzman in the
GTWC Europe Endurance Cup. Following a spectacular crash by Companc in the opening laps at
Sebring, the team redeemed themselves by charging towards second at
Portimão, where Rovera narrowly missed out on victory to
Nicky Catsburg. The trio dominated the next round at
Spa-Francorchamps, winning the race and making Wadoux the first ever female winner in the championship. However, a crash by Wadoux in torrential rain at
Le Mans and a turn one beaching of the car by Companc at
Fuji proved detrimental to the team's season, which they finished eighth in the standings. In the GTWC Endurance Cup, Rovera and his teammates scored a pole position and a victory at the season-ending Barcelona round, leading them to eighth place overall, highest of all entries competing with the new
Ferrari 296 GT3. During the middle of the year, Rovera replaced
Ben Barnicoat at AF Corse's LMP2 squad in the
ELMS for two races, subsequently helping
Matthieu Vaxivière and François Perrodo to win at
Aragón in the Pro-Am class.
2024 At the end of 2023 and going into 2024, Rovera paired up with Vaxivière and Perrodo once again in LMP2, driving in the
Asian Le Mans Series. The trio scored a second place at the opening race in
Sepang and took another runner-up spot at
Abu Dhabi, where Rovera had taken a controlling lead before it was wiped away thanks to a red flag. An early collision which involved Perrodo at the final race meant that the squad had to settle for fifth in the teams' rankings. Rovera continued racing alongside the two Frenchmen in the LMP2 Pro-Am class of the
ELMS, whilst also returning to the
WEC to compete in the new LMGT3 class alongside
Simon Mann and
François Hériau. Thanks to a strong pit strategy, Rovera and his ELMS teammates won the opening round at
Barcelona. After high tyre wear for Vaxivière dropped the team to fourth in class at
Le Castellet, the team finished second in
Imola. A dominant race in
Belgium followed, with AF Corse winning and title rivals
TDS Racing retiring. The team's championship advantage was undone by contact at
Mugello, where Rovera collided with the #63
Iron Lynx Lamborghini and got stuck in the gravel, later going on to finish seventh. Despite a strong strategy gamble by
Algarve Pro Racing's Alex Quinn in
Portimão, Rovera and AF Corse clinched the Pro-Am title by finishing fourth. In the WEC meanwhile, Rovera and his teammates finished in the points in all but one race and ended up third in the points standings. Rovera capped off the season with an impressive performance at
Bahrain, coming out on top in a late-race battle with
Charlie Eastwood for the victory. Having been among the drivers with the fastest average lap times during his WEC stints, Rovera received the
Goodyear Wingfoot Award for LMGT3 drivers at season's end. Another notable success story unfolded in the GTWC Europe Endurance Cup: after finishing ninth in France, Rovera and his teammates narrowly missed out on victory at the
24 Hours of Spa, dropping to second after being held up by a slow car in pit lane. They took eighth at the
Nürburgring but vaulted up the standings with third place in Monza, having led most of the race from pole. Pole at
Jeddah gave Rovera the chance to win the title, and although his stint in the lead was ended by a slow pit stop, third place at the flag following a late charge by Pier Guidi was enough to clinch the title for him and AF Corse.
2025 Rovera once again raced in the
Asian Le Mans Series over the winter of 2024 and 2025. The AF Corse squad finished second at
Sepang, with Vaxivière losing victory on the final straight to
Tristan Vautier. Sixth in the second Sepang race and fourth in race 1 at
Dubai followed, meanwhile another late pass by Vautier on Vaxivière left AF Corse third in Dubai race 2. In the first
Abu Dhabi race, the lineup finished sixth after losing time with a tyre strategy gamble and a later collision caused by
Tom Dillmann. On Sunday, Rovera built up a 20-second gap to the cars behind following a safety car period and handed the car over to Vaxivière, who closed off the race and secured victory. This result earned Rovera, Vaxivière, and Perrodo third in the championship. The 2025 schedule for Rovera turned out to be intensive: he returned to the
WEC to partner Mann and Hériau, joined Vaxivière and Perrodo in their
ELMS Pro-Am title defence, and contested a double programme of
GTWC Europe Sprint Cup and
Endurance Cup, all with AF Corse. The WEC campaign started with fifth place in
Qatar and a retirement in
Imola, where Rovera's teammate Mann was spun out of a podium position by
Valentino Rossi. The team bounced back well at
Spa, as a tyre-saving run by Hériau enabled Rovera to drive home with a 40-second lead to second place in the final stint. Rovera qualified second at
Le Mans; he and the team then remained in the front positions throughout the event and finished second.
São Paulo meanwhile yielded a lowly 13th place, and the mistake of remaining on wet-weather tyres in drying conditions at
Cota caused Rovera to drop back to 12th.
Fuji proved to be different: Rovera took over in the lead of LMGT3 going into his stints, and still led going into the closing laps. A potential victory was undone there however, as Rovera was forced to complete his final lap very slowly due to an energy miscalculation, causing him to be demoted to second after the finish due to an earlier five-second penalty for a pit stop infringement. ==Racing record==